• Of the Painted Cliffs and surrounding territory, Baldwin Spencer wrote: ‘The eastern side of the Finke is bounded by a remarkable series of hills, of which the main one, Engoordina, gives its name to the place. The colour is striking. The lower part, for fifty or sixty feet, consists of greenish or deep red-brown shales, above which lies a hundred feet of sandstone, pink and white and cream in colour, with a dark, siliceous capping. Looking south from the hills above the station, in the middle of the horseshoe loop, the river, with its broad bed of white sand, is seen sweeping round to the west across the scrub-covered flats, where its course is marked by a dark line of gum trees. Sand-hills, deep red in colour, stretch back behind the cliffs that rise abruptly from its eastern bank.’ REFERENCE: Baldwin Spencer, Wanderings in Wild Australia, vol 1, Macmillan and Co, Ltd, London, 1928, p 52
